On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:38:16AM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> My mail is not getting through it seems, but, it will likely
> sometime.
> If you haven't got wordperfect8 or abiword, and don't want to
> fire up staroffice, the easiest command to read word97 documents
> seems to be strings.
> strings word97.doc puts out a surprisingly good looking text
> file, I have just noticed.
> In my mailcap file, I used:
> application/octet-stream;strings %s | less
> and it did just fine in mutt.
mutt is _real_ good, alright...
but, there are a couple of applications out there (check freshmeat.net?)
that convert (one-way) from word to open formats (e.g., html).
i ran into anti-word recently; i think that outputs html.
--
Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
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